Jacques Rivette

That's a massive loss (though given the rumors that he'd been in decline for the last several years, I'm glad he's not suffering). I finally saw Celine and Julie Go Boating this past week, and it was one of the most joyful experiences with film I've had in a long time.

Rest In Peace

"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground."

RIP (reading the notes in the new Rivette box set, it did sound as if his last years were fairly miserable, so I'm glad he's no longer suffering)

Will be having a memorial viewing of Duelle this weekend

Am watching "Paris s'en va" ( the alternate "Pont du Nord") this morning.

La Belle Noiseuse is one of my favorite movies about art. RIP.

RIP, he's 2/2 for movies I've seen/movies I think are incredible, looking forward to adding to both columns

i'll keep trying, Monsieur.

RIP

slightly guiltily my first response just now was to be psyched at the increased probability of actually getting some screenings here

links

http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.de/2016/01/the-film-plays-thing-rip-jacques.html

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jacques-rivette-1928-2016

http://www.jacques-rivette.com/

a ward fowler post from a decade ago mentions "a totally new language of time/place/movement in cinema."

i haven't warmed up to that language.

how is the film with Birkin and G Chaplin? anyone?

http://www.filmlinc.org/films/love-on-the-ground/

It is almost the quintessential Rivette - two women as central protaganists, a theatrical background, a ghost house - but perhaps not the most inspired version of that kind of thing (Gang of Four is another, more compelling, variant.) Rivette had as good a late run of movies as any major director, imho.

That's a massive loss (though given the rumors that he'd been in decline for the last several years, I'm glad he's not suffering). I

he had been suffering from alzheimer's for some time. supposedly he wasn't altogether "there" for the production and post-production of his last film, and after that, couldn't be insured.

i have to admit that the only rivette films i've liked are some of his later films, like "secret defense." granted, i haven't seen "out one" or several other of his lengthy '70s films, but having seen the established "masterpieces" i concur with sarris that, at least in the first decades of his career he was rather flat-footed as a stylist.

RIP. Does anyone else like his Joan of Arc movies?

La Belle Noiseuse is one of my favorite movies about art. RIP.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 29, 2016 3:14 PM

I really enjoyed the Joan films. Thought Bonnaire was perfect casting and the grittiness worked in its favor.

There are very good versions on YT, btw.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/out-ward-bound-jacques-rivette-s-out-1-arctic-circle?utm_content=bufferad1e4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I really like the two Joan of Arc movies, definitely Rivette's best period films - parts of them strongly reminded me of Rossellini's 'historicals'.

Watched Duelle at the weekend - Rivette's most overtly 'fantastic' film.

Jane Birkin did a Q&A after the Jane B par Agnes V screening here last night, and talked a little about Rivette; i didn't know she'd done 3 with him. On her first meeting she was thrown by the lack of a script, and the prospect of doing a 'circus' movie. Then she watched Celine et Julie and phoned Geraldine Chaplin in a panic to see if ahe could get back into JR's good graces.

Hmmm - the circus-themed Rivette is Around a Small Mountain, the third of the three films Birkin and Rivette made together (and, as it turned out, JR's final movie.) It could be that Mountain was an older project revived much later, I suppose (it never got any kind of release in the UK so I've not actually seen it).

Checking his filmog I've seen less than I thought I had. Le Pont du Nord is something I want to see as soon-ish as poss. Got a hunch about that one.

(xxpost) at one point in the 70s he was going to do something called "Carnaval" (sp?) that was also circus themed. Maybe Jane B was referring to an earlier request to work on that project?

"Le Pont du Nord" is fantastic. Paris never felt so threatening.

Yeah, Pont du Nord is another Paris-as-playground one; Duelle also has lots of fantastically empty Parisian locations.

I don't know; it's possible she was confused, or i am.

I've seen Pont du Nord, tho at least ten yerars ago, and ... it didn't work on me. Willing to revisit.

The weirdest thing about Pont du Nord is a sudden non-diagetic burst of Astor Piazolla on the soundtrack

Acid Hose, I think I saw somewhere on ILX that you'd watched the earlier, 'trial run' of Pont du Nord - I take it this was a non-official source (it isn't on the Masters of Cinema Pont du Nord disc)?

"Paris vu par". And yes - non official source most probably.

"Paris Goes Away," the sort, somewhat abstract companion film to Pont du Nord, is also available online: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TiuNS59K8rg

*short, I mean

ty ows, will watch later

whats the deal w the doc claire denis did on him? seems like the perfect time for someone to put that out if its possible wrt to the rights etc

On YT as well ( the doc ).

Yes, thanks ows and ah

RIP. though i always preferred jacques demy. i will never watch out. i dont care how much less of a true card carrying cinephile that makes me.

please tell us more about the other films you're never going to watch

StillAdvance - are you comparing Rivette and Demy just because they are called Jacques (as per the poll you just posted)? Just how fucking dumb can you get.

oh STFU you received-wisdom-parroting dullard

of course they cant really be compared, fucking DUH!

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Fuck you - stop the contrarian routine first.

im not trying to be 'iconoclastic', i find the over reverence a bit stultifying. rivettes films are treated as a sort of holy entrance exam for a particular kind of film fan.

which posts on this thread about Jacques Rivette are you actually referring to?

im not trying to be 'iconoclastic', i find the over reverence a bit stultifying. rivettes films are treated as a sort of holy entrance exam for a particular kind of film fan.

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I don't fancy your chances when Godard goes over.

I just find JLG more interesting tbh, even at his most indulgent. *shrug* Even something like Un Film comme les autres (which i only saw recently) has a lot going for it, even if visually it isnt exactly riveting to watch, though even then, you have to admire his gall in keeping the camera so still, and never truly revealing his subjects. I should probably try rivette again, but that kind of hip whimsy (combined with the running time!) i saw in celine... makes me not want to. reminds me a little of vera chytilova's daisies, thinking about it now. i might try le pont du nord though, its on mubi at the moment.

Can't you wait at least a couple of fucking weeks to tell us about your tedious contempt for this not-dead-even-a-week artist whose films you haven't seen and who other posters here actually have some affection for?

Un Film comme les autres (which i only saw recently) has a lot going for it, even if visually it isnt exactly riveting to watch, though even then, you have to admire his gall in keeping the camera so still, and never truly revealing his subjects

Saw this too. You can easily all of this about Rivette, i.e. you have to admire Rivette's gall in making a 12.5 hr film/shooting extended takes of rehearsals etc etc.

Morbs is at least willing to re-watch. Just save your bullshit for another time.

sure. hopefully you will have dismounted that rather tall horse of willful offence-taking of yours by then too.

Would someone who knows mind posting a link to the Claire Denis documentary? Somehow I can't find it. Thanks...

My copy of the Arrow box set was delivered on the day he died. RIP.

"... it isnt exactly riveting to watch..."

I see what you did there.

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/rosie-riveter-1.jpg